The Value of Local Expertise
Expert real estate guidance is essential when you’re learning a new city. You may get to know the city and even understand it well, but it takes time to gain the deep-seated context that a lifetime resident has. The perspective and understanding of a long-time local often come from a broader and deeper well of experience. The same applies to real estate. While we work with people who have varying levels of real estate knowledge, even the most informed clients will encounter unknowns—questions you may not even think to ask unless you’re immersed in the daily flow of research and conversation that comes from being in this business for a long time. In short, there are always things you don’t know that you don’t know.
We want to lead the charge and help you ask the right questions. We want to elevate your questions, dig deeper so you are empowered to make the best decision for you and from a foundation of considering all angles and arriving at a place of clarity and understanding.
Creating a Lasting Connection with Your Home
This is more than a transaction, more than a piece of property, more than an investment. In many cases, this is where you are going to live and create memories. It’s the roof over your head. It’s security. We want to help you protect your investment, but also appreciate how momentous a decision this is and how impacting the right home can be through all the different phases of life. Needs change, but we can help you think through possible trajectories so you can optimize your relationship to your home in the long run.
Celebrating Your Real Estate Journey
Perhaps most importantly, this is FUN. You are approaching a change, a transition, crossing a milestone. We see how huge this is and know it is cause for celebration along the way.
A thanksgiving story — not in a traditional, seasonal holiday sense with turkey and stuffing and finding enough matching place settings for all the folks trundling your way, but one of some of the dearest clients: maybe-buyers I had the wonderful good fortune to meet in a lovely home I had held open in September, located smack dab in the neighborhood they’ve been rooted in together for years – they’d lived just a block away from there “close enough to get to Salt & Straw very quickly” being one of the qualifiers on location as it would turn out. Meeting these two immediately warmed my heart and enriched my life, setting us on a journey to find a solution together for the challenge they were facing: repair their current home, or search for something new to close a difficult chapter for them and move on from the loss and heartache brought on by a house fire Christmas eve 2021. They lost their cherished home they’d poured so much time and energy into. While they were originally planning to rebuild, they saw the above mentioned home in their neighborhood, OPEN HOUSE sign out front, and somehow that rekindled the sense that they could find something new to love and grow into.
Sarah and Tariq contacted me in early August after being referred to me by one of my favorite lenders. They used to live in Portland, and had moved to Los Angeles for work, and were now being transferred back to Portland. They were moving to Portland in mid-November, so they came to Portland in mid-October to find a home. Before they arrived, we had a flurry of emails back and forth narrowing down homes they wanted to see. They seemed to really hone in on mid-centuries and when we came up with our list of homes to see over the next few days, the majority were mid-centuries. They arrived on a Thursday evening, and we hit the ground running on Friday morning. We saw around 12 houses together over the next couple of days, and they saw even more homes on their own visiting open houses.
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